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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)

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[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

This argument about cost of development would hold more weight if the game store savings were passed onto the users rather than just eaten up by the publishers. Borderlands 3 base game has the exact same price on steam vs EGS atm, £49.99. Clearly those 20% savings are just extra money the publisher wants to pocket rather than actual necessary costs to the game. If their happy to pass it off to steam when sold on the steam platform rather than raise the price to recoup the platform tax.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yes, but with EGS more money goes to the company making the games. AAA games have never been more expensive to produce, and developers are shutting doors left and right. After the costs of marketing and overhead, more of the proceeds of the game are going to the fucking download service than the people making the game when it's on Steam.

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Blame the publishers then. They set the price and they dictate the bonuses of the devs based on sales. Choosing to believe more money from the game store is actually making its way to devs instead of shareholders is naive at best.